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North Carolina serial killer and death row inmate Velma Barfield in her cell at Central Prison, Raleigh, 1984 .

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In an attempt to balance out all the “would you fuck my mom?” posts, here’s me taking in the rays in the 1970s

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18 young ladies psoe for a photo in their sleepover party, 1924

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Photo of a German mother crying after finding out her captured son didn’t survive in Soviet Union POW camps. (1955)(1280x1692)

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TEXANS AT WAR -- 1991 Henry Payne cartoon contrasting LBJ's approach to the Vietnam War with George H.W. Bush's approach to the Gulf War.

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Cheyenne couple, Inez and John Bull, with their dog, 1898

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Wichita police officer Terry Morrow empties the pockets of James Alan Kearbey, 14, after he shot up his middle school. The principal was killed and two teachers and a student were wounded, Kansas, 1985 .

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Five children photographed on Easter morning, April 1941, in Southside, Chicago, Illinois. Photograph taken by Russell Lee.

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“Germans you have to pay for that!” Polish poster about WW2 reparations from Germany, on the streets of Warsaw (2017)

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Field-Marshal Wilhelm Keitel signs the documents for the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany, ending 5 years and 8 months of war in Europe. May 8th 1945

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My mother in 1991

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My grandparents looking like cats that ate the canary. Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1929

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